Category: New Versions

Xara Photo Graphic Designer 7.0

Posted Dec.21, 2011 under New Versions, Products

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 is a comprehensive photo editing, web graphics-creating, drawing, graphics design and deskop publishing tool. No need to keep a library of apps for your various graphics needs – Xara Photo & Graphic Designer can handle them all.

This package sets a new standard in image design with its unique combination of universal image editing, professional graphics and layout functions, intelligent portrait optimization, and foolproof slideshow creation features.

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer advantages:

  • Optimize, edit & design photos
  • Illustrate, draw & paint
  • 3D design tool (e.g. for logos)
  • Create multi-page documents, incl. text layout (e.g. brochures)
  • Complete PDF workflow (import, creation, output)
  • Create animations
  • More than 3,000 professional design templates

Productivity and Interface:

  • Speed – The fastest graphics software to be found with highest performance vendor rendering engine.
  • Direct Action Tools – Allows you to create effects such as transparency, shadows, bevels or gradient fills in an interactive, fast and intuitive way.
  • Drag and Drop – Enables you to use the drag and drop principle, which is the most intuitive way of working and a great time saver.
  • Zoom – Allows magnification up to 25,000%, perfect for detailed work.
  • Anti-Aliasing – Brings maximum screen quality and a pioneer with the fastest, highest quality anti-aliasing available in any drawing program.

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer software is a comprehensive graphics application that comes packed with useful functionality. Interface issues mean it may take a while to find your way around, but there’s plenty of help and you’ll soon feel at home.

On Xara Guide you get tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your Xara Software.

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Xara 3D Maker 7.0

Posted Apr.13, 2011 under New Versions, Xara 3D Maker

Making 3D graphics and animation is a real hard work doing it the traditional way, but with Xara 3D, everything is just a piece of cake!

Xara 3D Maker is a program to create 3D text and graphics. It provides a professional and high quality to that image that you are working on.

Now on its 7th version, Xara 3D has some  great new animation types and even more bevel styles to experiment with. There are also new controls over X & Y position and viewpoint, a wireframe mode and some essential updating for Win 7.

For more info, check out Xara 3d Maker


What’s New in XARA 3D  Maker 7.0?


‘Scroll’ animation type added. Now you can scroll text vertically, horizontally or into and out of the screen, with full control over the speed. Both the scroll and new scroll in & out animations are perfect for movie and video opening titles and closing credits (export as AVI, compatible with any movie software).

‘Scroll in/out’ animation type added. A second new ‘scroll in/out’ animation type, which includes separate control over how the text enters and leaves the screen – so for example it could scroll in slowly from the right, hesitate and then exit quickly upwards!

Integration with MAGIX movie & slideshow products. Xara 3D Maker 7 can export animations with a transparent background in a proprietary format called CFX which can be imported into MAGIX slideshow and movie editing software, Photo story on CD & DVD 9 and Movie Edit Pro 17, which makes 3D Maker the perfect choice for creating overlaid 3D captions for movies or slideshows produced in MAGIX software.

Bevel types added. 7 new bevel types, increasing even further the range of different styles you can create.

‘View options’ panel’. A ‘View options’ panel which gives additional advanced control over the X/Y position of an image against its background, allows you to precisely change the angle of rotation and viewpoint, and offers a new wireframe mode which can simplify the display and speed up animation viewing time.

Save & restore. Automatic save and restore of the current design on program exit and start-up, or on Windows shutdown.

Compatible with Windows 7. Official Win 7compatibility. Also optionally for Windows 7 rarely used fonts are hidden to unclutter the font list.

Easy access to samples. Instant access to over 700 readymade Xara 3D Maker samples via a new Open Samples option in the File menu.

Other software compatibility. You can now cut and paste your 3D images to Microsoft Word and other programs.

With Xara 3D Maker 7.0,  it will make a more dramatic yet stylish image that will lift up the presentation of your web page, movie or mail shots. You can even give your desktop an artistic life by creating a personalized animated 3D screensaver in minutes!

For more info, check out Xara3D Maker

Until next time ;-)

Peter – Your Xara Guide

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Xara Xtreme 5 Released

Posted Jul.24, 2009 under New Versions, News

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Hello Friend,

Xara Xtreme, the ultimate graphics software has released Xara Xtreme Version 5. By far one of the world’s best graphics tool, whether you’re working on that website design, flash animation, photo composition or a vector drawing, I tell you if you’ve got Xara Xtreme  you’re using the right tool!

Here are the some of the new features of the Xara Xtreme 5 that makes it stand out among the rest both in print and on the web.

  • Text Handling *Updated* – Now Xara Xtreme allows you to enter text in lines, columns or even across multiple pages and gives you powerful control over the formatting,  making Xara Xtreme an ideal tool for DTP projects like brochures and newsletters that combine drawings, photos and text.
  • Spell Check *New* – includes a multi-language spell checker with check-as-you-type, word suggestions and a user dictionary.
  • Object Gallery *New*- it replaces the Layer Gallery as general method of selecting pages, layers and objects. It’s the most powerful and flexible tool, best for viewing, re-ordering, hiding and locking layers and pages in your document.
  • Object Gallery (Xara Xtreme Pro) *New* – It has everything from the Basic edition plus more advanced features.
  • Content-Aware Image Resize *New* – Intelligent image scaling technology that allows images to be stretched or squashed while retaining the proportions of important parts of the picture.

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  • HTML website Creation *Updated* – includes a complete ‘website creation’ feature that enables you to design multi-page websites with ease, including mouse-over and pop-up effects, animations and widgets. One click preview and FTP upload included. It’s the world’s most advanced WYSIWYG web page layout – and with no HTML skills required.

Plus 100 more enhancements. Read more….

Web User interface *New* - With lots of features such as links, placeholders, image type and quality, improved mouse-over and more.

Don’t miss out on this one, give your clients more than they could ever imagine and  grab your own copy of  Xara Xtreme 5 now!

If you already have one don’t miss out on the great new features that are unmatched by any other web design software, upgrade to Xara Xtreme 5 at our special upgrade price.

Until Next Time ;-)

Peter – Your Xara Guide

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Xara Xtreme 4.0 Out Now

Posted Aug.25, 2008 under New Versions

A new version of Xara Xtreme was released recently, Xtreme 4.

Here are some reviews:

Chicago Tribune
“This software draws on all the powers of a modern PC to give even beginners the ability to enhance our surroundings with home-brewed works of professional looking art.”

Los Angeles Times
“…the greatest thing about Xara Xtreme is the enjoyment one gets from just playing. It is the adult equivalent of that first tray of watercolors that enraptures children during art time in kingergarten.”

Computer Arts – Recommended
“Xara’s latest release is a superb illustration tool …One thing we particularly like about Xara is the live solid object scaling and dragging…It soon becomes a tool you’ll pick up again and again for photorealistic vector ‘painting’ – seriously rivalling Expression and thoroughly spanking Illustrator’s bottom…Xara Xtreme Pro is well worth splashing out for.”

Digit
“Live Effects is the standout illustration feature. This will let you edit an object (including vector drawings), even after you have applied an effect to it. DTP tasks are made easier by new support for multiple page documents and an enhanced text tool.(tools) such as the colour picker – are one-click simplicity. The Transparency tool in particular is fast and easy to use.”

PC Pro
“The program’s main strength remains its underlying speed. Xara has always stood out for the astonishing speed of its vector handling, as well as the sheer hands-on creativity this enables. ..the ability to apply a drop shadow, graduated transparency, or both, to your text in real-time is impressive…You’re getting an extraordinarily powerful package for little more than the upgrade cost of the latest Illustrator.”

Practical Web Design
“Although it’s primarily known as a vector-drawing program, Xara Xtreme has capabilities that extend into photo-editing and animation, making it a great all-round tool for the creation of web graphics. Optimised for quick learning and rapid workflow, this is a deceptively powerful package.” “Importantly, Xara seems committed to maintaining its software’s innovative edge.”

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Xtreme 4.0

Until next time ;-)
Peter – Your Xara Guide

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Xara Xtreme 3.2 Released

Posted Nov.04, 2007 under New Versions, News

Xara Xtreme 3.2Recently Xara released a new minor upgrade of Xtreme – version 3.2.

It’s called a minor release as it is not a complete new version e.g. not Xtreme 4.0, but 3.2. But I wouldn’t call it “minor” anyway.

Read on to find out why this is more than a minor release…

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